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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> And mplayer doesn't depend on ffmpeg at all... |
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It is true mplayer doesn't depend on you installing an ffmpeg package, |
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but mplayer point releases have the ffmpeg libav dirs which are built |
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into the mplayer binary. That makes mplayer a wrapper around the ffmpeg |
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engine in my book though admittedly a fairly interesting and useful one. |
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Mplayer's ffmpeg libs are usually a month or so behind current ffmpeg |
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and the included hooks in Mplayer are there for the use of non free |
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codecs. It's been experience that you tend to lean towards mplayer if |
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you want to use non free code to increase the number of video formats |
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you can decode/view. |
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In any case both recent versions of ffmpeg and mplayer in portage, |
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20061016 or better, have the newer ffmpeg real decoder. However I'm not |
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sure it supports everything in real10 or whatever they're calling the |
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Helix format. You can also skip installing win32/real codecs and |
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download the codecs directly from mplayer in their essential codecs |
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pack, but you might need to massage them into place on Gentoo. I'm not |
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sure why the Gentoo ebuild requires the realplayer package to get the |
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real codecs. |
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kashani, who knows far too much about running and building ffmpeg and |
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mplayer straight out of cvs |
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